This is a rough mix of a song I want to put on our next album.

About a year and a half ago I moved to Durham NC from Ann Arbor MI. I had a band in Michigan The New Green and imo, they were really great. Those are the guys you are hearing on this recording.

When I moved to NC, I decided that I would finish the album we started here. I would record my vocals and find some violinists and horn players to help finish what we started. I found a violinist via craigslist, which was really the only way I knew how to meet anyone at that point.

We met to over a beer and she seemed nice, a little vanilla, but excited to record. -She had only ever played in her church band and was looking to try to branch out. I brought the demos of the songs, including this one.

If you listen to this song, you'll notice that the background vox are a little goofy. I was trying to come up with some interesting vocal ideas and by the end of the song I was annoyed. In my annoyance I recorded several tracks of me singing the words "Like a motherfucking bird". -Thinking no one else would ever hear it. Well, I forgot to mute the track and gave her that version.

It was the first track on the CD I gave her. We ended up not making music together.

Enjoy this motherfucking song.

ButterflyEffect:

That was a really tight track, I loved the end section even with the "like a motherfucking bird" part thrown in, though I think it would have been better with that muted. Still a great track.

Maybe it was for the best, that's a pretty funny story.


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